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… is from page xvii of Ronald Bailey’s excellent 2015 book, The End of Doom [2]; here, Ron recalls an experience that he had with his first book, Eco-Scam [3] – a book in which Ron debunked much of the gloom-and-doom environmental hysteria of that era:
When I presented my book proposal to my editor, Thomas Dunne, at St. Martin’s Press back in 1992, he actually told me: “Ron, we’ll publish your book and we’ll both make some money. But I want to tell you that if you’d brought me a book predicting the end of the world, I could have made you a rich man.” Human beings do have a psychological bias toward believing bad news and discounting good news. But besides that, the sciences surrounding environmental issues have been politicized from top to bottom.
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